Showing posts with label MH17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MH17. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The cost of truth: flight MH17

             Today the Joint-Investigation Team (JIT) has revealed the outcome of the investigation regarding the catastrophe of flight MH17 in July 2014. The missile was fired by Russian-made Buk from the territory controlled by Russian separatists. For some people it did not come as a revelation, for others even most obvious facts won’t be enough. This investigation might be important being another evidence of Russian forces’ presence in eastern Ukraine. But how many people are still doubting? The most horrifying and sad moment is that the acknowledgement of Russian aggression in Ukraine costs 298 lives.


Thursday, January 7, 2016

New turn of the MH17 tragedy

        The tragedy of the Malaysian Air Flight 17 (MH17) crashed on the 17th July 2014 in the Eastern part of Ukraine, controlled by the separatists, and took lives of 298 people will appear in the European Court of Human Rights. The case will be represented by the aviation attorney, Jerome L. Skinner, in the past advocated the case of the PanAm Flight 103 destroyed by a bomb in 1988, in which Libya took responsibility.  According the investigation conducted by Bellingcat, webpage for the citizen journalists, twenty Russian soldiers of the 53ed brigade were involved in the crash of the airplane. The report of the investigation received by the Dutch Prosecution Office will be analysed by the group of inquiry.